Abdelkarim Osama, Aly Mohamed, ElGyar Noha, Shalaby Amira M, Kamijo Keita, Woll Alexander, Bös Klaus
Faculty of Physical Education, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.
Institute of Sports and Sports Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jul 6;14:1172423. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1172423. eCollection 2023.
Growing evidence indicates that culture and education can influence cognitive constructs. Studies targeting Western and Asian populations have shown a positive relationship between aerobic fitness and cognitive control in children; however, this association has yet to be explored in the Arab world. The current study aimed to investigate the relationship between aerobic fitness and attentional networks in Egyptian preadolescent children. In total, 103 preadolescent children (9.76 ± 0.11) completed an assessment of aerobic fitness using a 6-min running test and a computerized attention network test that allowed for assessing alerting, orienting, and executive networks. The results revealed that higher aerobic fitness was associated with shorter response time and higher response accuracy in a more cognitively demanding task condition (i.e., incongruent trials). Furthermore, higher aerobic fitness was associated with a more efficient executive network. No associations were observed for alerting and orienting networks. These findings corroborate growing evidence indicating the importance of aerobic fitness for cognitive development and extend the literature by suggesting that the positive association between aerobic fitness and cognitive control might be generalized to the Arab population and not significantly change across cultures.
越来越多的证据表明，文化和教育会影响认知结构。针对西方和亚洲人群的研究表明，有氧适能与儿童的认知控制之间存在正相关关系；然而，这种关联在阿拉伯世界尚未得到探索。本研究旨在调查埃及青春期前儿童的有氧适能与注意力网络之间的关系。共有103名青春期前儿童（9.76±0.11岁）通过6分钟跑步测试完成了有氧适能评估，并进行了一项计算机化注意力网络测试，该测试可用于评估警觉、定向和执行网络。结果显示，在认知要求更高的任务条件下（即不一致试验），较高的有氧适能与较短的反应时间和较高的反应准确性相关。此外，较高的有氧适能与更有效的执行网络相关。未观察到警觉和定向网络存在关联。这些发现证实了越来越多的证据表明有氧适能对认知发展的重要性，并通过表明有氧适能与认知控制之间的正相关关系可能适用于阿拉伯人群且不会因文化差异而显著变化，从而扩展了相关文献。
